Chinatown Walkaway Food/Noodle Shops
My wife and i are taking our two adopted (from China!) 6 year olds through Chinatown this Saturday morning. Not really looking for formal restaurant recs; more like Chinese walk out food places, XLB, noodle shops, stuff we can take home that afternoon. I was in Chinatown some years ago and stumbled on a place that made traditional hand thrown noodles. Any places like that still exist? Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Robert Lauriston
Apr 7, 2011 08:13 AM
Gourmet Delight for roast pork and so on.
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Gourmet Delight
1045 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA 94108 -
For the traditionalist, try Eastern Bakery on Grant. They have the best French doughnuts and good cha sieu bow and guy don beng. You could also try the yelling waiter place on Pacific above Grant for gim fon, cha sieu and egg rolled up in a rice noodle sheet (Chinese sushi as a Czech friend of mine called it).
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Eastern Bakery
720 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108›8 Replies-
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re: Pei
yimster
Apr 6, 2011 07:23 AM
It is a doughnut that is "hollow", it has a sweet outside and not all the dough under it. Only my Uncle was still alive to make them again. But since I should not be eating them maybe it good that I will not be lining up to get them still hot after a light syrup coating. I can still taste them in my mind.
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re: Pei
It is kind of like a popover and the dough that is under the surface is slightly underdone. The outside is drizzled with a slightly bitter sugar syrup. It is an American standard, I think. I have seen them at Kingpin in Berkeley, but Eastern Bakery's version is much more refined: airy, eggy, tender and pleasantly sweet.
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Eastern Bakery
720 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108
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re: kc72
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re: Melanie Wong
Gim fon is the phonetic spelling for this juk sing/ABC. The restaurant is Sam Wo, which I think is still there. They have them coiled in a large saucepan and they pull it out and slice it into rounds for you. Eat them right away because the noodle gets tough after a few hours.
I know for sure that they had them in the mid 80's and I believe way before. I remember going there in the late 60's.
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Sam Wo Restaurant
813 Washington Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
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K K
Apr 5, 2011 11:47 AM
For XLB, it is better you dine in, and Bund Shanghai is probably the best in the area.
Agreed on Golden Gate Bakery, get there early, line up, and buy a box of their signature egg tarts. If feeling adventurous try a few other items.
Walk up Stockton Street and buy some Cantonese BBQ to go (cha siu/bbq pork, roast duck, bbq spare ribs). Many places to choose from, and Gourmet Deli at 1045 Stockton Street is quite decent. Good Mong Kok Bakery at 1039 Stockton seems popular for non restaurant quality take out dim sum.
Maybe Hing Lung and get some congee to go, but don't miss their fried cruller sticks. Try the cow tongue pastry too (a sweeter version of fried ellpical goodness), picture here: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/Qy_NErFfz5OGdJfiN4TRgw?select=q9n1_d4XkH9f_cBwWE4mAg
Might be fun just to visit the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie company (even though fortune cookies do not exist in China
)http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/...
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Hing Lung Restaurant
674 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133Golden Gate Bakery
1029 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133Golden Gate Fortune Cookies
56 Ross Aly, San Francisco, CAGood Mong Kok
1039 Stockton St, San Francisco, CABund Shanghai
640 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA›1 Reply-
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Robert Lauriston
Apr 5, 2011 11:57 AM
I'm not sure there's any need to get to Golden Gate Bakery early. They had plenty of stuff at 3pm on Sunday. Line looked long but probably took no more than 10 minutes.
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Golden Gate Bakery
1029 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133
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